Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. v. Lambert

STOKES, Justice.

This is an action for damages instituted by the appellee, Claude Lambert, against the appellant, Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Incorporated, in which the appellee sought to recover damages for personal injuries received by him while employed by appellant as a seaman on the steamship Rochester, an oil tanker owned by appellant and plying between the ports of New York and Beaumont. About midday on January 30, 1942, off the Virginia coast, an explosion of some kind occurred and the ship was damaged to such an extent that it sank. The appellee had been asleep in the forecastle and a…